Just did a "short" game as the Chosokabe and kicked all sorts of ass. Only on medium mind. Was a pretty turbulent game to be honest. I took my home island pretty quickly, but moving out into the main part of Japan was a bit of a hurdle, mostly because the advisers really fucking annoy me so I shut them off and have to figure everything out myself, but once I got some floating boxes that the Japanese claim are boats off I headed. A good idea would have been to just hit the island to the west and move across taking everything along the way meaning I had no enemy clans behind me. However, I decided to go right north and start fighting there.

After a while the Mori and Ito clans joined me and we began a glorious conquest, till the Ito clan kept taking land I wanted so I shut them down, and as that happened the Realm Divide hit me and all hell broke loose. Thankfully no one takes a Fort from unless I let it happen, the armies of the Shogunate, the Ikko-Ikki, the Ito and the rest of them just smashed against my forts like waves but fell. I managed to then take everything west to Kyoto on the main island and began a war on three fronts which I managed to hold onto despite some invasions and lost ground, mostly because I mastered my Agents and my Ninja killed 3 Daimyo's and 2 Heirs of a single clan, causing them much grief.

After a while I took Kyoto on a glorious battle, I lured the Shogun's armies out as reinforcements to a unit he had on the field and managed to get him surround in his rookie error, killing over half of his units outright, then at the siege of Kyoto I just whittled away at what was left in a slow but heroic victory I then got into skirmished with just about everyone and they all fell before I took my last province and all bowed to me.

Basically, I fucking loved that. Empire fell on it's arse with me because I don't think I knew what I was doing in that game (it was my first TW) and because it kept crashing at the end of the campaign so I fucked it off. But this is great, except for the Naval combat which is just hilarious if somewhat stupid.

Anyone having any Co-Op stability issues? Shogun 2 has been kicking me and my friend out of Co-Op matches, stability seems to be a problem.

The Shogun 2 webbie says patch 2 has been out since May 9th, but in-game it says my version is v1.1.0 (build 3517). Can anyone shed some light on this, I assumed Steam would automatically patch & update games?

Any help is appreciated, thx gamers. Fine game as well, much much better than I could have hoped.

I just have a question how would a NVIDIA GT 420 1 gig play the game? (along with a Intel core i5 2300 and 6 gig RAM) sorta wanting low/medium,not wanting high at this moment in time. Basically will play to sum it up

Ranger_Ryu wrote:
I just have a question how would a NVIDIA GT 420 1 gig play the game? (along with a Intel core i5 2300 and 6 gig RAM) sorta wanting low/medium,not wanting high at this moment in time. Basically will play to sum it up

The Shirabyoshi uses seduction to convince her target to join her family’s cause, and to distract enemy armies. She is also able to entertain the nobles of friendly towns in order to boost their growth and entertain friendly generals in the field, which increases their loyalty to the family and counteracts the efforts of enemy agents attempting to bribe or seduce them into changing sides.

The Junsatsushi can request the allegiance of neutral and enemy castle towns, along with any forces garrisoned there. He ensures loyalty and obedience from friendly generals, increases income by preventing corruption, and keeps your castle towns and armies safe from enemy subterfuge when stationed there. He can also pay off rival agents.

The Monomi acts as an assassin, spy, saboteur and scout. He can establish spy networks within your castle towns, which increases the chances of discovering any rival agents and armies that may be hiding within a province.

The Sou can inspire a friendly army or pacify an angry populace with his enlightened rhetoric. Likewise, he can demoralise an enemy force, reduce the chances of successful bribery, indoctrinate enemy agents and cause them to retire, or incite an enemy population to revolt.

ryandsimmons wrote:
Holy hell this game is tough! I cannot beat the siege tutorial. Cheers for that guide.

I can see myself playing it as a civ type game, with autocompleting battles at the moment.

...yes you can do that, but you'll be taking something away from the Total War experience.

When you start a campaign, on the clan selection screen the clans are arranged in order of difficulty, pick one that is classed easy - Chōsokabe springs to mind.

Also you can set campaign and battle difficulty as easy, it's a good way to get you into the game. If you find yourself doing well in battles during the campaign, there is an option in the menu to change battle difficulty to your suiting.

I bought this for 3.99 on play.com special deal, installed it (took an age), then waited for it to update (overnight)... Finally played it and have no idea what to do!

It's so hard... Even on custom battle, with loads of funds and easy setting I still can't win... I made an army of cavalry only and charged the shit out of the enemy... Was expecting to see some sort of re-enactment of LOTR... Without the giant elephants. Alas, most of my cavalry fled after the initial charge. I probably needed a more balanced army but the tutorials are hard enough! Anyway, given it costs less than my lunch I'm not too bothered.

I agree actually. I still miss the old battle system from the the first Medieval TW game - the map may have been a lot more abstract but it managed to make some pretty special multi-phase battles as everyone piled into Italy with armies big enough to need 2 rounds of reinforcements. The proper line of sight system for ambushes is well missed as well.

I have a Geforce 660Ti and 8GB RAM, however my processor is only a Q6600 @ 2.4GHz per core. Even with everything on the lowest settings the frame-rate is appalling (always under 30FPS) no matter the size of the battle.

I can run BioShock Infinite, Guild Wars 2, Starcraft II and Tribes: Ascend on high/ultra settings @ 1080p with the frame-rate hovering around 50-80FPS but this game just chews my PC up a good one - even Metro 2033 runs better than this!